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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Amazon Neptune vs. Apache Druid vs. Couchbase

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Name

Description

Multi-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQL

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.23
Rank	#315	Overall
	#26	Graph DBMS
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#90	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Website

bitnine.net/agensgraph

aws.amazon.com/neptune

druid.apache.org

www.couchbase.com

Technical documentation

bitnine.net/documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

docs.couchbase.com

Developer

Bitnine Global Inc.

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Couchbase, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2012

2011

Current release

2.1, December 2018

29.0.1, April 2024

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL for querying

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

APIs and other access methods

Cypher Query Language
JDBC

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

C
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

no, but can be realized using table inheritance

none

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Automatic Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

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